Arduino has announced two new developer boards aimed at the Internet of Things (IoT) community, called the Primo and Otto. It comes just one month after the MKR1000 was announced worldwide. The Primo is Arduino’s first IoT computing board to feature all the traditional wireless standards, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth low-energy, near-field communications (NFC), and… Read more »

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When you think of the Greek economy, it’s easy to recall news images protests, mass unemployment and hardship. But the Greek tech sector is helping to lift the country’s economic spirits. Plagued by one of the worst economic environments since the Great Depression, political uncertainty and capital controls that have stopped nearly all international payments in and out of… Read more »

The Internet of Things (IoT) has got to be the buzz phrase of the century. We thought .com was big, this is bigger; 40-50 billion connected objects by 2020 bigger, according to an AIG report, recently out. The difference between the .com business revolution, come bubble, and the IoT is that this time it is… Read more »

Apple introduced the open source software framework CareKit at their launch event today, a new platform they hope will be used to develop new healthcare apps. The Cupertino-based firm plans to release the software this April, with the aim to make it easier for end-users to track their health and monitor symptoms, treatment and medications.… Read more »

In a new power play in autonomous vehicle market-share grab, Uber is rumored to be planning to purchase – or may have already placed an order for – thousands of Mercedes-Benz self-driving vehicles. According to a report by German media outlet Manager Magazin, Uber placed a huge order to buy 100,000 of the carmaker’s S-Class, with… Read more »